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Welcome to International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. With the 75th Cannes Film Festival less than two weeks away, we’re speaking with well-respected French sales exec Carole Baraton, co-founder of…

EXCLUSIVE: Lydia Leonard (the English Call My Agent remake), Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner) and Sverrir Gudnason (Borg Vs. McEnroe) are leading the cast of Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson's first English language feature Northern Comfort. The project is getting principal photography underway now in Iceland, beginning in lake…

EXCLUSIVE: Here's some hot casting news for this week's European Film Market – I can reveal that Paul Mescal, who broke out in last year's hit series Normal People, and Mank actor Tom Burke have been set to lead Irish thriller Bring Them Down. Set in the wild landscape of the West of Ireland, the film follows an Irish…

Parasite releaser Neon is teaming up with Paris-based sales company Charades to oversee the global release of three titles: Spaceship Earth, The Painter And The Thief, and She Dies Tomorrow. As announced on Tuesday, Neon is employing an innovative distribution strategy for Spaceship Earth while the coronavirus…

Riz Ahmed is a multi-talented man. Alongside being a name actor on both sides of the pond – with recent credits including HBO’s The Night Of, Marvel movie Venom and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – Ahmed is also a successful rapper, as well as a vocal activist for race and cultural issues. In new movie Mogul Mowgli,…

EXCLUSIVE: Intriguing French animation I Lost My Body has its world premiere in the Critics’ Week section of Cannes on Friday. Check out the first trailer above for the film from director Jérémy Clapin who co-wrote with Amélie‘s Guillaume Laurant. The story, which is a loose adaptation of Laurant’s 2006 book Happy Han…

EXCLUSIVE: French sales outfit Charades has boarded its first UK production in the shape of BBC Films and BFI-backed Lynn And Lucy, from first-time feature filmmaker Fyzal Boulifa and producer Camilla Bray (Oranges And Sunshine). Written and directed by Boulifa, a two-time winner of the Illy Prize for Best Short Film…

Genre market Frontières Platform (May 12-13), the co-presentation between the Fantasia International Film Festival and Cannes’ Marché du Film, will this year feature projects from Denis Côté, Ben Wheatley and Can Evrenol. The Frontières Buyers Showcase (Sunday May 13 at 4pm in Palais K) will feature 6 films, with…

Veteran sales agent Carole Baraton has joined forces with a trio of respected execs to launch international sales and co-production shop, Charades. The news comes following Baraton’s exit from Wild Bunch as Head of International Sales this month and on the eve of the European Film Market, which kicks off early next…